TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the rules of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao on diabetes mellitus within traditional Chinese medicine through text mining
AU - Huang, Yunyu
AU - Wang, Shidong
AU - Wang, Lianjie
AU - Yu, Xiuchen
AU - Jiang, Miao
AU - Zhan, Junping
AU - LYU, Aiping
AU - Zheng, Guang
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Diabetes mellitus, or simply diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), diabetes mellitus is called 'Sweet Urine Disease'. Over several thousand years of clinical research and theoretical thoughts, some treatment on diabetes has been accumulated. These treatment rules can be demonstrated through the networks of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao which is of critical importance in clinical practices of TCM. Li-Fa-Fang-Yao, which means principles, methods, formulae, and Chinese herbal medicines respectively, indicate the four basic steps of diagnosis and treatment: determining the cause, mechanism and location of the disease according to the medical theories and principles, then deciding the treatment principle and method, and finally selecting a formula as well as proper Chinese herbal medicines. In this paper, focused on disease of diabetes, we explored the rules of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine. Through calculation, four networks i.e., symptom, pattern/syndrome, treatment principle, herbal formula, and Chinese herbal medicine were constructed. Based on these four networks, their connections were also demonstrated by the professional knowledge of TCM and thus a whole network of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao was constructed and demonstrated. This Li-Fa-Fang-Yao network might be meaningful for both clinical practise and medical research.
AB - Diabetes mellitus, or simply diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), diabetes mellitus is called 'Sweet Urine Disease'. Over several thousand years of clinical research and theoretical thoughts, some treatment on diabetes has been accumulated. These treatment rules can be demonstrated through the networks of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao which is of critical importance in clinical practices of TCM. Li-Fa-Fang-Yao, which means principles, methods, formulae, and Chinese herbal medicines respectively, indicate the four basic steps of diagnosis and treatment: determining the cause, mechanism and location of the disease according to the medical theories and principles, then deciding the treatment principle and method, and finally selecting a formula as well as proper Chinese herbal medicines. In this paper, focused on disease of diabetes, we explored the rules of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao within the framework of traditional Chinese medicine. Through calculation, four networks i.e., symptom, pattern/syndrome, treatment principle, herbal formula, and Chinese herbal medicine were constructed. Based on these four networks, their connections were also demonstrated by the professional knowledge of TCM and thus a whole network of Li-Fa-Fang-Yao was constructed and demonstrated. This Li-Fa-Fang-Yao network might be meaningful for both clinical practise and medical research.
KW - diabetes mellitus
KW - Li-Fa-Fang-Yao
KW - network
KW - text mining
KW - traditional Chinese medicine
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881177507
SN - 9788994364216
T3 - Proceedings - 2012 7th International Conference on Computing and Convergence Technology (ICCIT, ICEI and ICACT), ICCCT 2012
SP - 1369
EP - 1373
BT - Proceedings - 2012 7th International Conference on Computing and Convergence Technology (ICCIT, ICEI and ICACT), ICCCT 2012
T2 - 2012 7th International Conference on Computing and Convergence Technology (ICCIT, ICEI and ICACT), ICCCT 2012
Y2 - 3 December 2012 through 5 December 2012
ER -